I encourage looking at these threads, topics and posts today ...

Please join in our At Home Memorial and accompanying Zazenkai in Remembrance of the Buddha's Nehan, and those relatives and friends who have left this world ...

https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...-Zazenkai-2018
and
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...-E-ZAZENKAI%21

Please sit any time our February MONTHLY 4-hour ZAZENKAI! ... with a Talk on the Sandokai (Identity of Relative & Absolute) ... and what happens, and does not not happen, at birth and death ...
...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...ur-ZAZENKAI%21

On the same theme, many questions about Understanding Death .... there is more to life and death than life and death ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...standing-Death

And the whole world is interflowing, interconnected, thus ... Interconnectivity ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...erconnectivity


I want to ask for Treeleafer,what is purpose of life? ... our folks respond ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...urpose-of-life

Some advice from Sangha members about when one's child is hassled about his religion ... Advise for my 7 year old son ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...7-year-old-son

There is more to Shikantaza than that ... Does "just sit" = "just be aware"? ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...l=1#post218273

Unusual experiences during Zazen ... we learn from the good ones, but neither run toward nor away ... Zazen happenings ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...l=1#post218194
also
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...l=1#post217902

A question about the role of Faith in Shikantaza ... there is some trust involved, and some non-self-convincing ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...l=1#post218864




Reminder ... Especially for newer folks ... FEELING LOST AROUND THE COMMUNITY? Contact our "Sangha Buddhies" ... a new system to help people find their way around ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...angha-Buddhies




And DON'T FORGET! ... the experiment continues, and we need you! ... A TREELEAF EXPERIMENT with EVERYONE’S PARTICIPATION REQUESTED: “LAH” (Lend A Hand)
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...Lend-A-Hand%29




I am so glad if this place and the practice are benefiting you. If so, you might consider a DONATION to Treeleaf at this LINK, although there is absolutely no need or requirement to do so. Thank you.



A Re-MINDer on SIMPLICITY:

In a Zen Monastery, SILENCE or A FEW WISE WORDS are cherished over MANY WORDS. Thus, I advise folks to restrain the need to speak unless the heart truly calls. If you find yourself posting many times each day, maybe consider what truly needs to be said ... and when it is best just to answer with silence and an inner Gassho.

SILENCE OR A FEW HESITANT WORDS OF FRIENDSHIP AND SUPPORT OFTEN SPEAK MOST PROFOUNDLY. Post when it is truly important to you and needs to be spoken from the warm heart.

(BUT too much silence or shyness can also be excessive ... so take the Middle Way!)

Also, to those who may get lost among the many threads and conversations in our Forum, please think of a monastery made of wood or brick, with 100 monks holding 10,000 conversations in the hallways, kitchen, Abbot's rooms and library (I assume no chatting in the Zendo where people sit Zazen).

Would you need or want to hear or join in all or most conversations? Of course not! You would, at best, pick and choose the conversations relevant and helpful to you.

So here too in our Sangha, NO NEED TO READ EVERY CONVERSATION: Try to note the ones that seem helpful to your Practice or interests, leave the rest. The above threads are a few suggestions.



Oh, and we do ask folks to note that they have SAT ZAZEN DURING THE LAST DAY BEFORE POSTING IN THE FORUM (please read about that here):

http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...ore-Forum-Chat

Gassho, Jundo

SatTodayLAH